What about coriolis force as an admittedly weak but chiral force???
}:)
Seriously, though...
I seem to recall (~4 years ago) a crystallization/precipitation that
resulted in a helical structure (Nature paper?). The authors repeated the
experiment in a colleague's lab south of the equator, and got the opposite
chirality. They could not explain the mechanistic details, as I remember,
but suggested that coriolis force might be involved.
...any ideas???
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